Directory_and_Chronicle_1925 — Page 995

Agencies

CHUNGKING-HANGCHOW

Hongkong & Shanghai Bankg. Corpn. Guardian Assurance Co., Ld.

London & Lancashire Fire Insce. Co.,Ld. North China Insurance Co., Ld.

Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada

Phoenix Life Insurance Co.

China Mutual Life Insce. Co., Ld.

Shanghai Life Insurance Co., Ld.

司公船輪清日

NISSHIN KIsen Kaisha

PHILIPPIDI, C. M., Watchmaker, Jeweller

and General Importer - Tel. Ad: Philippidi

PHILIPPIDI & Co., C. M., Importers

C. M. Philippidi

Tong Ping-hen, manager

局理管務郵川東 Tung Chwan Yu Wu Kuan Li Chu

POST OFFICE (Eastern Szechwan District) -Head Office: Chungking; Tel. Ad:

Postos. Sub-Offices: Shensikai, Siao- liangtze, Taliangtze, Shihpati, Kiangpeh and Shihtzeshan. Subordinate Offices: 75; Agencies: 304; Rural Box-Offices: 117

Commissioner-O. Mellows

Acting Deputy Commr.-W. O'Neill Postmaster (Wanhsien)-S. Tomaeff District Staff: 40 Clerks and 1346

subordinate employés

源聚

REPRESENTATIVE OF BRITISH MANUFAC-

TURES, LTD.

來大

ROBERT DOLLAR Co.

A. C. Flemming, foreign manager

W. F. Arnat

H. C. Wei, Chinese manager

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK

F. R. Hykes, manager

F. G. Green

H. C. Reed

C. H. Williams

J. H. Morrison, const. supt.

J. H. Schwer, installation supt.

J. Stamm

H. W. Mills

司公限有德蜀

919

SZECHWAN HANDELS-GESELLSCHAFT M.B.H.

P. R. Schuchardt

福聚

UNION FRANCO-CHINOISE DE NAVIGATION

M. Charrier, manager (absent)

A. Lordereau, acting manager

司公船輪江提

YANGTZE RAPID STEAMSHIP Co.

Drake, manager

YOUNG BROTHERS TRADING Co., Import

and Export Merchants and Commis- sion Agents-Hsin Fêng Kai; Tel. Ad: Yangbrosco

S. C. Yang, mang. director (Harbour) J. Li, sub-manager, director A. W. Davidson, secretary P. C. Low, local manager

HANGCHOW

A t Háng-chau

Hangchow, the capital of the province of Chekiang, is situated 120 miles south- west of Shanghai, and 110 miles south of Soochow, adjacent to the Chien-tang River (the Green River of Robert Fortune's famous journeys to the neighbouring tea districts), at the apex of a bay which is too shallow for the navigation of steamers. The mouth of the river is, moreover, visited by a bore, or tidal wave, which further endangers navigation. The highest bores occur in autumn during the three days after the middle of the eighth moon, and Haining is the best place for observing this famous phenomenon, which is formed by the north-east trade wind heaping up the water of the Pacific on the China coast and causing enormous tides. Hangchow Bay is ahaped like a funnel, and the mass of water rushing up, more and more concentrated as it advances, is suddenly confronted by the current of the river. The constriction and opposition, acting in concert, bank up the rising water. Gathering momentum and